Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plot. What these men discussed the Nazis would have given tanks to know. Fearing that closer liaison would result in increased United Nations military action against the Reich, the Nazis inspired a burst of reported reports via Stockholm that the Russians might soon sue for peace. As if in answer, the Russians revealed that last winter they had rounded up and executed scores of Nazi parachute spies, had crushed out cells of fifth columnists-"disaffected youths, former Tsarist officials and civil servants"-in Leningrad...
...nerves, more intense than anything since August 1939, had Europe tight-strung. The Nazi Brüsseler Zeitung angrily reported that Belgians who gathered in the streets to spread stories of invasion would be punished for rumormongering. Inside the Reich the Frankfurter Zeitung declared tensely: "We are in this affair deeper than ever. We feel the moment of decision is nearer than ever...
...Germans listened on contraband frequencies were German. But the accent was British, the voice pleasantly impersonal. Burly Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F.'s Bomber Command, had gone on the air to promise that his bombers (and the Americans') would "scourge the Third Reich from...
...Order in France last week had all the orderliness of a jungle. The persistent feud between the German army and Adolf Hitler's Schutzstaffel (Elite Guard) had reached well across the German border into France. Having been given full police power in the Reich and occupied territories, the Schutzstaffel plastered Paris with posters proclaiming new cruelties to the Jews. Whereupon men in German army uniforms went through the streets and tore many of the posters down...
...fear had materialized. Last week Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare admitted that economic contact had been established between Germany and Japan. Small quantities of rubber had reached the Reich from Jap-controlled rubber lands; since Dec. 8 several shipments of German machine tools had left Europe for Japan...